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Evaluating information...

Accuracy

Evaluating Information from
the World Wide Web:

     Need to evaluate
     Criteria for evaluating
     Authority
     Accuracy
     Coverage
     Currency
     Objectivity
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It is also important to determine, as much as possible, the accuracy of the information presented on the web page.

Ask yourself the following questions:  Are sources for information cited, in parenthetical footnotes and works cited pages, so that they can be verified?  Is it clear where the information came from?  Are there any editors or fact checkers at the site
that are responsible for the information in the web page?  Is the information free of grammatical, spelling, and other errors?

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